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microsoft claims that its new tablet is finally ready to replace a laptop I'm Dan Akron and this is the Microsoft Surface pro 3 now what makes this surface pro 3 different than the surface pro 2 in the original surface well it's got a larger screen this is a 12-inch screen as opposed to a 10-point 6 inch screen it's actually thinner at the same time it's 9.1 millimeters thick which you know what is actually pretty darned thin it's not a famous design but they say the fan is so is so quiet you're not gonna hear you're not gonna feel the air so it's plenty close to being fanless of course everyone remembers the kickstand from the original surface that it still got that although this kickstand goes out to pretty much any angle you want between 22 degrees and about 150 degrees you could stop anywhere and it resolves just about here which is a good angle for leaning over your desk and drawing and the reason why you'd be concerned about drawing is because it's got a stylus accessory you can get and you can use apps like OneNote and other apps to do some drawing on it and I tried out the stylus very quickly works fairly well it has palm rejection so you can lean your hand on it and not cause any trouble and you saw I'm hitting the windows button over here they move that windows button from down here where it is on a lot of Windows tablets too over here this way so they want you to think of the surface pro 3 really more portrait mode almost like an iPad and there were certainly a lot of comparisons made here's a launch event for the surface pro 3 to the iPad and how this does everything an iPad does but all the productivity stuff you want your regular laptop computer to do and the reason you can do a lot of productivity things is because the surface pro line of course has these really cool keyboard type covers we've always liked these the new version keeps the excellent keyboard and they've made the touch pan a little bit bigger so that it works better with things like multi-touch gestures and even though it's got a touchscreen you know a lot of websites a lot of apps are still not optimized for touch so having a touch pad is very important it still snaps on magnetically like this but the big difference here is this sort of a little sub hinge right here and if you fold it up like this there's a secondary magnet that attaches so you've got a little bit of a keyboard angle right there and that actually makes a lot easier to type on let you put it on your lap a little bit better and gives you just you know a little bit of a lift up and that makes it feel a little bit more like a traditional laptop the surface person he followed the big trend these days was better than HD displays the 12 inch screen is 2160 by 1440 resolution now the surface pro 3 starts at 799 they've got a core i3 a Core i5 and a core i7 version so obviously if you want the more powerful processors that's going to cost more and usually the keyboard touch pads and I am assuming the stylus are going to be sold separately I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Microsoft Surface pro 3